Windmill.



J. PARTAIN.

WINDMILL.

APPLICATION FILED 0012, 1912.

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WINDMILL.

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Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

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JOSEPH PARTAIN, OF WILLIAMS, CALIFORNIA.

WINDMILL.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Josnrn Fixn'ram, acitizen of the United States, residing at Williams, in the county ofColusa and State of California, have invented new and usefulImprovements in l/Vindmills, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved wind mill. for operating a pump or fordriving other machinery and consists in the construction, combinationand arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved wind mill ofgreater size and power, in which the wind wheel is horizontal and thevanes thereof are always presented in direct pressure to the wind,irrespective of the direction of the wind and which, hence, requires nodirecting vane to keep it before the wind.

Another object of the invention is to make practical the constructionand operation of larger wind mills, having a greater number of vanes indirect pressure to the wind, and hence, capable of producing greaterpower than is possible with wind mills as new constructed.

Another object is to effect improvements in the construction of the windmill by means of which the vanes thereof may be readily andinstantaneously thrown in or out of gear so as to control the operationof the wind mill, as desired.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a windmill constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detailvertical transverse sectional view on the plane indicated by the linea-a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan of my improved wind mill. Fig. at is adetail sectional view of the same on the plane indicated by the lineZ)?) of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional View, showing the means forpivotally mounting one of the vanes.

In accordance with my invention, I provide a tubular vertical shaft 1which has a bearing 2 at its lower end on a supporting platform or frame3 which may be of any suitable construction and the said vertical shaftalso has a bearing i just below the arms of the wind wheel proper, guys5 being attached to the said bearing, the said bearing a being hereshown as a collar pro vided with a flange to which the guys areattached, the said collar bearing at its lower Specification of LettersPatent.

Application filed October 2, 1912.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

Serial No. 723,545.

end on an annular flange G with which the said shaft is provided. Anysuitable means may be employed for supporting the vertical shaft forrotation, within the scope of my invention. This vertical shaft is preferably provided near its lower end with a bevel gear 6 which engages asimilar gear 7 on a horizontal shaft 8. The shaft 8 is mounted inbearings on a pair of standards 9 which rise from the platform or frame3 and to the outer end of the said shaft 8 is attached a crank wheel 10which serves to ope'ate pump rod 11. Any suitable power transmissionmeans may be en'iployed in connection with my improved wind mill.

The wind mill 12 has a tubular hub 13 which is fitted on and secured tothe shaft 1 and is provided with two or more flanges 14L suitably spacedapart. The radial arms 15 of the wind wheel, are secured to the hubflanges 14; and each radial arm comprises an upper member 16 and one ormore lower members 17 said members being preferably tubular and being,in practicepmade of pipes of iron or steel and of suitable length anddiameter. The outer ends of the members of each radial arm are connectedby a vertical, pipe 18 and the outer ends of said radial arms are alsoconnected together by means of circular tire rods 19 which brace thesaid arms. Brace rods 20 are also employed which have their upper endssecured to the upper end of the tubular shaft 1 and their lower endssecured to the outer ends of the radial arm 16, the said brace rods 20being radially arranged, as shown.

Each radial arm of the inner wheel carries a suitable number of verticalvanes 21 each vane being provided at a point spaced. from its outer sideand to one side and out of its center with vertical pivots 22 which passthrough vertical openings in a metal cull or band which is bolted aroundand projects out from the tubular upper and lower members of the arms sothat the said vanes are pivotally connected to the said arms and areadapted to be locked in radial relation, parallel with the radial armsand are also adapted to swing in one direction so as to automaticmll yfeather, so that while the vanes on one side of the wind wheel arepresented broad-side to the action of the wind, those on the other sideof the wind wheel are presented edgcwise to the action of the wind.

Dogs 23 are provided and engage one side of the vanes so as to lock thevanes 1n parallel relation to the radial arms on one side provided. Thedogs of each tubular memher are connected together for'simultaneousmovement as by means of rods or other suitable devices 25 and springs 26are also connected to the dogs which, when the wind mill is inoperation, -move the dogs outwardly or toward the outer ends of the armsof the wind'wheel and keep them in the paths of pivotal movement of thevanes so that the dogs hold the vanes on one side of the wind millbroad-side to the action of the wind. Cords 27 are connected to the dogsand lead inwardly. to and downwardly in the tubular shaft 1, engagesuitable direction pulleys 28 and have their lower ends connected to alever 29 which lever is carried by the tubular shaft and has its fulcrumas at30 at one side thereof. The said lever is free to move in avertical slot 31 with which the tubular shaft is provided and the saidtubular shaft is also provided with a spring catch 32 which has a pairof spaced recesses 333t'. When the lever is depressed it engages therecess 33 and is locked, thereby in such position and acts upon thecords 27 to hold the dogs 23 out of the paths of the vanes so that allof the vanes of the wind wheels are free to swing in any direction ontheir pivots and, hence, all of the vanes present their edges to theaction of the wind and the wind wheel ceases to revolve. In order tostart the wind mill in operation, the lever is raised and engaged-Copies of this patent may be obtained for from the spirit of myinvention andwithin the scope of the appended claims.

I claim V 1. A wind mill of the class described having a verticaltubular shaft mounted for revolution, a horizontally arranged wind wheelcarried by the shaft and for revolution therewith, the said wind wheelbeing provided with tubular radial upper and lower arms havinglongitudinal slots, vertically arranged vanes carried by the said radialarms and pivotally connected thereto, the pivotal axes of the vanesbeingto one side of the vertical centers thereof, dogs mounted formovement in the slots of the tubular arms into and out of the paths ofthe vanes, springs arranged in the tubular arms and connected to thedogs to normally move the latter into the paths of the vanes, a levermounted in the revoluble tubular shaft and flexible connections betweenthe dogs and the lever, the said flexible connections being arranged inthe tubular arms and tubular shaft.

2. A wind mill of the class described comprising a tubular verticalshaft mounted for rotation, upper and lower tubular radial arms havingtheir inner ends connected to said shaft, vertical pipesiconnecting theupper and lower tubular arms, circular tire rods connecting theouterends of said tubular radial arms, vertical vanes pivotally mountedand carried by said upper and lower tubular radial arms, dogs guided bysaid tubular radial arms and movable into and out of engagement with thesaid vanes,

JOSEPH PARTAIN.

Witnesses WV. R. TARNER, ALBERT FoUoH.

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